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Utilizing Natural Language Processing to Enhance Ideological Education in Tibetan Universities
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Quan Yang; Huajian Xin; Xuehua Ji; Fae Mai – International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies, 2024
This article analyses the significance of ideological and political education for college students in Tibet and proposes a natural language model for an ideological education curriculum to improve the accuracy of students' document search. The segmentation results are optimized to enhance literature search accuracy, promoting the development of…
Descriptors: Universities, Geographic Regions, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
The Boolean Is Dead, Long Live the Boolean! Natural Language versus Boolean Searching in Introductory Undergraduate Instruction
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Lowe, M. Sara; Maxson, Bronwen K.; Stone, Sean M.; Miller, Willie; Snajdr, Eric; Hanna, Kathleen – College & Research Libraries, 2018
Boolean logic can be a difficult concept for first-year, introductory students to grasp. This paper compares the results of Boolean and natural language searching across several databases with searches created from student research questions. Performance differences between databases varied. Overall, natural search language is at least as good as…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Natural Language Processing, Online Searching, Search Strategies
Student Query Trend Assessment with Semantical Annotation and Artificial Intelligent Multi-Agents
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Malik, Kaleem Razzaq; Mir, Rizwan Riaz; Farhan, Muhammad; Rafiq, Tariq; Aslam, Muhammad – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
Research in era of data representation to contribute and improve key data policy involving the assessment of learning, training and English language competency. Students are required to communicate in English with high level impact using language and influence. The electronic technology works to assess students' questions positively enabling…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Computer Assisted Testing, Student Evaluation, Search Strategies
Challenging Conventional Assumptions of Automated Information Retrieval with Real Users: Boolean Searching and Batch Retrieval Evaluations.
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Hersh, William; Turpin, Andrew; Price, Susan; Kraemer, Dale; Olson, Daniel; Chan, Benjamin; Sacherek, Lynetta – Information Processing & Management, 2001
Describes research conducted at the TREC (Text Retrieval Conference) interactive track that compared Boolean and natural language searching, showing they achieved comparable results; and assessed the validity of batch-oriented retrieval evaluations, showing that the results from batch evaluations were not comparable to those obtained in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing
Searching for Information in an Online Public Access Catalogue (OPAC): The Impacts of Information Search Expertise on the use of Boolean Operators
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Dinet, Jrme; Favart, Monik; Passerault, Jean-Michel – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2004
Boolean systems still constitute most of the installed base of online public access catalogues (OPACs) in the French universities even if many studies have shown that Boolean operators are not frequently used by non-librarian users (by contrast with professional librarians). The first study examined the use of Boolean operators by French…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Librarians, Foreign Countries, College Students
Web Search Engines: Key To Locating Information for All Users or Only the Cognoscenti?
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Tomaiuolo, Nicholas G.; Packer, Joan G. – 1996
This paper describes a study that attempted to ascertain the degree of success that undergraduates and graduate students, with varying levels of experience using the World Wide Web and Web search engines, and without librarian instruction or intervention, had in locating relevant material on specific topics furnished by the investigators. Because…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Software Evaluation, Higher Education